Matters change and morals change; men remain.
"John Galsworthy" Order of Merit (Commonwealth)/OM (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.
And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
. . . early morning does not mince words . . .
Beginnings are always messy.
A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it.
`Very haughty!' he said, `the wild Buccaneer.'
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